{"id":2304,"date":"2007-03-29T23:04:28","date_gmt":"2007-03-29T23:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2007\/03\/close-a-catholic-school.html"},"modified":"2007-03-29T23:04:28","modified_gmt":"2007-03-29T23:04:28","slug":"close-a-catholic-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2007\/03\/close-a-catholic-school.html","title":{"rendered":"Close a Catholic school.."},"content":{"rendered":"

…open an academy:<\/a><\/p>\n

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The New York Archdiocese is inviting youngsters back to a Greenwich Village parish schoolhouse it shuttered last year – at $25,000 a pop. <\/p>\n

Now, working-class parents who had paid about $2,500 to send their children to the former St. Joseph’s School on Washington Place are calling its conversion to a private academy targeting well-heeled New Yorkers this fall the height of hypocrisy. <\/p>\n

"It’s a slap in the face," said Bryan Delaney, a bar owner whose eighth-grade son was among 139 students bumped from the parish school when it closed. <\/p>\n

"It’s getting away completely from what I thought [the Catholic Church’s] mission was – to educate people who don’t have that kind of money." <\/p>\n

The hefty tuition at the new Academy of St. Joseph, which dips to $17,000 for half-day pre-kindergarten, would put its cost on par with such private heavyweights as Brearley, Dalton, Horace Mann and Spence. <\/p>\n

It’s also as much as four times that of most archdiocese-operated high schools and many privately run congregational Catholic schools in the city, such as Cathedral or Rice. <\/p>\n

"That’s more than a salary for most people. It’s disgusting," said former St. Joseph’s parent Aziza Marulanda, a bond-rating consultant whose sixth-grade son now attends a Bronx public school. "At the end of the day, the church is about business." <\/p>\n

The academy will be run by the archdiocese, not a religious order, and serve students in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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